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Demonstration of TOFFEE: A Response Uncertainty Quantification Tool

Austin Williams, Lance Drouet, Sandra Bogetic

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 200 / Number 4 / April 2026 / Pages 976-990

Regular Research Article / dx.doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2500259

Received:September 19, 2024
Accepted:April 14, 2025
Published:March 13, 2026

A key characteristic in neutron transport is nuclear data. Cross-section uncertainty is not used in MCNP6.3 to propagate response uncertainty without external analysis. The TOol For Fast Error Estimation (TOFFEE) is a Python-based code developed to automate the propagation of cross-section uncertainty for MCNP evaluations. TOFFEE implements the sandwich rule to calculate the uncertainty from cross sections with sensitivity coefficients from MCNP6.3 and ENDF/B covariance data. In this paper, TOFFEE has been tested with benchmark experiments, and it has been compared to the uncertainty quantification capabilities of Sampler and TSUNAMI, within SCALE, to verify the application’s capabilities.